Gurdjieff: “…There are three aspects that you are able to see in different friends of yours—where is to be found their centre of gravity, their individuality. Of your three friends, one has his centre of gravity in his mind; another is like a cow with centre of gravity in his body; the third is like an hysterical woman, he manipulates for everything. There are three aspects of individuality. Study that, it’s a good soil. [To Aboulker] What are you laughing at?”

Aboulker: “The hysterical woman.”

Gurdjieff: “There isn’t a better illustration for the emotional centre than the hysterical woman. She feels everything, even what doesn’t exist.”

- Trannoscripts of Gurdjieff’s Wartime Meetings
Meeting 14,
Friday 8 October 1943

[Present: Mme de Salzmann, Miss Gordon, Mlle Abadi, Mlle Regnault, Mme Franc, Mlle Leprudhomme, Mme Tracol, Nano, Méchin, Lebeau, Dr Aboulker, Luc Dietrich, Jacques and Alfred. Dinner after the reading.]

Dance of the Planet Tenders by Steven Vincent Johnson

Found it in one picture.

Okay, this made me lol.

“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.”
―Phillip K Dick

Image: Phillip Dick by Nicolas Rosenfeld